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[rebness]

For someone who is morbidly (ha) afraid of death - and I mean truly, awake-at-4am-thinking-it-over afraid - I sure do like my cemeteries. In fact, the more afraid of death I grow, the more I love cemeteries. They have to be old, though, and the pain far removed from them. I don't like new tombs at all, but old ones are so peaceful and beautiful.

I'm going to start a series in my LJ and post some photos of my favourite graveyards. Thus far, I have Pere-Lachaise and Montmarte (Paris), La Tour de Carol (French/Spanish border), that awesome old one in Boston, Lafayette, St. Louis No.1 and the one I can't remember (New Orleans), San Michele (Venice), various Greek and English cemeteries and, um, a deeply saddening one in Sarajevo. Exciting and weird times!

















Jim Morrison, we salute you. And steal from your grave.



This one's too sad and shiny and poor Edith. ;_;







Heloise and Abelard. This is a terrible photo but let me show you why...



Seriously. Renovations, you're necessary but confound me. >:| 





Herp derp





Modigliani and my icon hunny, his lover Jeanne Hebuterne <3



The monuments in the WWII/Holocaust memorial are really hard to even look at.







And now Oscar Wilde.



I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can't really judge as yes, I have kissed that grave myself before...



And perhaps Oscar would find it all rather splendid...



...But I judge this clown so hard. What kind of person writes in textspeak on a memorial? (Probaby the same asshat who wrote 'Bon Jovi' on the front).

Comments

[marvystoop.livejournal.com]

Dude! A+ post! I'm the same, love old cemeteries.
I'm not good with remembering names of the ones i've, er, looked up on an Urban Exploration website or two but the ones i remember most was one in Paris (i think) where they let people go down into the catacombs and another which isn't a cemetery but a freaking creepy ass 'museum' sort of thing where, for decades, the corpses of the deceased were sort of mummified to preserve them and tied to walls and placed on display. Think it started with this old monk fella and then everybody else wanted to be put on display after it happened. There's kids and everything, it looks like such a sad place. And scary.

[marvystoop.livejournal.com]

Oh! And i remember another of a really sad tomb of a young boy who got knocked over by a carriage and his parents had his stone shaped into how his body was found. It's hauntingly peaceful :( can't remember which cemetery that was in.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Ooh oh oh why have we not bonded over this

why